Head of English
Joined February 2015
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Spent the last few days collating old WJEC articles & combined them with the 200word challenges. Trying to foster the idea of planning into our ks4 stds. Thanks to @Mathew_Lynch44 and any others who I’ve used ideas from. @Team_English1 dropbox.com/s/aj54gz05k2mz4i…
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Week-by-week tasks for students to complete over the summer holidays douglaswise.co.uk/blog/summe… 👻 🔍 👑
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Behaviour in schools is the single biggest barrier to learning. A few years back @ianwhite21 produced an excellent thread on reframing positive behaviour with 20 ways to help manage behaviour in the classroom. I did 4 one pagers to highlight how good these methodologies are. They are available for download from my shared drive.
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This is so good (as is the original blog. Thank you
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I finally got around to reading @ClareSealy's ADAPTIVE TEACHING – THE FOUR VERBS APPROACH. It is an absolute must-read:
primarytimery.com/2024/03/29…
Here is a poster of my learning takeaways, but set some time aside and delve into this carefully crafted blog.
drive.google.com/file/d/1y4l…
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We’ve spent time unpicking Active Observation this half-term with our teaching staff.
👁 Both the staff presentation and an example of a ‘Plan for Error’ science document can be found below.
Thanks to @Doug_Lemov again for these specific techniques to use, adapt and refine.
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*** Adaptive Teaching: Scaffolds, Scale Structure & Style ***
“If we are setting simple tasks for struggling pupils, but complex tasks for high prior attainers, how are they ever meant to catch up.”
alexquigley.co.uk/adaptive-t…
[Access the infographic: alexquigley.co.uk/resources/]
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***ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK***
A policy that focuses on purpose assessment and feedback that supports closing knowledge gaps 📖
Feedback not marking ✅
Live feedback through active observation ✅
Whole class feedback ✅
A focus on the qualitative not quantitative data ✅
Reduced workload ✅
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This is an utterly brilliant response to just one paragraph in the Ofsted English report. Whose literature? Whose merit?
Thankyou @MichaelRosenYes
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September will start with reflection and recap: there are still stems and structures to teach. Going forward we might make curriculum adaptions to create cues within planning so we don’t drift from using them. 9/10
If you would find the resources helpful:
mrsmacteach33.wordpress.com/…
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Free downloadable poster summaries of how to set/ reset behaviour at the start of the year. Please RT to anyone who might this useful tombennetttraining.co.uk/wp-…
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🚨 NEW: Over 28,000 disadvantaged pupils who might have been expected to achieve top grades at GCSE did not do so between 2017 and 2021.
Our new research reveals the extent to which the talent of high-potential disadvantaged young people is being wasted ⤵️ 🧵
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If you're trying to use more retrieval practice in your classroom, here's a great video of AP Bio teacher Steve Kuninsky using it to turn understanding into knowledge.
teachlikeachampion.org/blog/…
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📚 POST! 📚
One of the most important skills to master in English, but one students always find tricky.
Here's how I teach students to embed quotation so that everyone can do it
codexterous.home.blog/2021/0…
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*** NEW POST ***
'The Struggle with Writing Stamina'
"...pupils [...] lacking in ‘writing stamina’ could account for an array of problematic causes. If we do not decipher the underlying causes, then we risk not finding solutions for pupils’ struggles."
theconfidentteacher.com/2023…
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🎉ALL THE RESOURCES!📚
Looking ahead to the next couple of weeks I wanted to help so I’ve uploaded **ALL** of my resources to my blog
I’ll also add any new resources here and keep it updated.
Link: codexterous.home.blog/resour…
I hope it helps!
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Trying to get students to think more carefully about the words they use to describe characters in AIC. Should hopefully lead to a decent bit of debate #TeamEnglish
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1. Finished teaching AIC with Y10-we are using themes from the play to springboard into Lang P2. While searching for inspiration today I used some of @DoWise resources and @SPryke2’s close reading tasks with @FunkyPedagogy’s approach to build up to a writing task for q5.
